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A curious row has erupted over the actions of Dmitri Medvedev and Vladimir
Putin on the eve of Russia’s war with Georgia in August 2008.

A video titled Medvedev’s Cowardice Killed 1,000 People appeared
online on the fourth anniversary of the conflict. It includes interviews
with a pair of retired generals who accused President Medvedev – as he was
at the time – of failing to act decisively as commander-in-chief when
hostilities broke out in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

Yuri Baluyevsky, a former Chief of the General Staff, and Marat Kulakhmetov,
who commanded Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia, alleged that